THE FIRST NOEL | Christkindlmarkt with Diane Bish & Gheorghe Zamfir

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Channel: Fans of Diane Bish · 2017 · Music

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Every December 8 (now every second Thursday of December), the March by children up to the castle to portray the birth of Christ takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. This year, Diane Bish and Gheorghe Zamfir cover this event, and afterwards, Diane plays The First Noel at Innsbruck Cathedral.

About the organ played in this video: In 1931 the Austrian organ builder Gebrüder Rieger from Jägerndorf (now Rieger Orgelbau) built a new large organ for the cathedral. This instrument was Opus 2500 for the Rieger firm and one of the largest organs ever constructed for the Tyrol region, featuring 75 registers (stops) with an electro-pneumatic action and a remote division (Fernwerk) of 10 registers situated in the cathedral’s dome. It was installed in the historic organ case of the cathedral, which dated back to the original 1725 instrument.

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